اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 78
| قَصِيدَةٌ لِآسَافَ اِصْغَ يَا شَعْبِي إِلَى شَرِيعَتِي. أَمِيلُوا آذَانَكُمْ إِلَى كَلَامِ فَمِي. | ١ 1 |
[A contemplation by Asaph.] Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
| أَفْتَحُ بِمَثَلٍ فَمِي. أُذِيعُ أَلْغَازًا مُنْذُ ٱلْقِدَمِ. | ٢ 2 |
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings since the beginning of the world,
| ٱلَّتِي سَمِعْنَاهَا وَعَرَفْنَاهَا وَآبَاؤُنَا أَخْبَرُونَا. | ٣ 3 |
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
| لَا نُخْفِي عَنْ بَنِيهِمْ إِلَى ٱلْجِيلِ ٱلْآخِرِ، مُخْبِرِينَ بِتَسَابِيحِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَقُوَّتِهِ وَعَجَائِبِهِ ٱلَّتِي صَنَعَ. | ٤ 4 |
We will not hide them from their descendants, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
| أَقَامَ شَهَادَةً فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَوَضَعَ شَرِيعَةً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ٱلَّتِي أَوْصَى آبَاءَنَا أَنْ يُعَرِّفُوا بِهَا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٥ 5 |
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
| لِكَيْ يَعْلَمَ ٱلْجِيلُ ٱلْآخِرُ. بَنُونَ يُولَدُونَ فَيَقُومُونَ وَيُخْبِرُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ، | ٦ 6 |
that the generation to come might know it, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell their children,
| فَيَجْعَلُونَ عَلَى ٱللهِ ٱعْتِمَادَهُمْ، وَلَا يَنْسَوْنَ أَعْمَالَ ٱللهِ، بَلْ يَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَاهُ. | ٧ 7 |
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
| وَلَا يَكُونُونَ مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ، جِيلًا زَائِغًا وَمَارِدًا، جِيلًا لَمْ يُثَبِّتْ قَلْبَهُ وَلَمْ تَكُنْ رُوحُهُ أَمِينَةً لِلهِ. | ٨ 8 |
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
| بَنُو أَفْرَايِمَ ٱلنَّازِعُونَ فِي ٱلْقَوْسِ، ٱلرَّامُونَ، ٱنْقَلَبُوا فِي يَوْمِ ٱلْحَرْبِ. | ٩ 9 |
The people of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
| لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا عَهْدَ ٱللهِ، وَأَبَوْا ٱلسُّلُوكَ فِي شَرِيعَتِهِ، | ١٠ 10 |
They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.
| وَنَسُوا أَفْعَالَهُ وَعَجَائِبَهُ ٱلَّتِي أَرَاهُمْ. | ١١ 11 |
They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
| قُدَّامَ آبَائِهِمْ صَنَعَ أُعْجُوبَةً فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ١٢ 12 |
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
| شَقَّ ٱلْبَحْرَ فَعَبَّرَهُمْ، وَنَصَبَ ٱلْمِيَاهَ كَنَدٍّ. | ١٣ 13 |
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
| وَهَدَاهُمْ بِٱلسَّحَابِ نَهَارًا، وَٱللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِنُورِ نَارٍ. | ١٤ 14 |
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
| شَقَّ صُخُورًا فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ لُجَجٍ عَظِيمَةٍ. | ١٥ 15 |
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
| أَخْرَجَ مَجَارِيَ مِنْ صَخْرَةٍ، وَأَجْرَى مِيَاهًا كَٱلْأَنْهَارِ. | ١٦ 16 |
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| ثُمَّ عَادُوا أَيْضًا لِيُخْطِئُوا إِلَيْهِ، لِعِصْيَانِ ٱلْعَلِيِّ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلنَّاشِفَةِ. | ١٧ 17 |
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
| وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، بِسُؤَالِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ١٨ 18 |
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
| فَوَقَعُوا فِي ٱللهِ. قَالُوا: «هَلْ يَقْدِرُ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُرَتِّبَ مَائِدَةً فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ؟ | ١٩ 19 |
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
| هُوَذَا ضَرَبَ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ فَجَرَتِ ٱلْمِيَاهُ وَفَاضَتِ ٱلْأَوْدِيَةُ. هَلْ يَقْدِرُ أَيْضًا أَنْ يُعْطِيَ خُبْزًا، أَوْ يُهَيِّئَ لَحْمًا لِشَعْبِهِ؟». | ٢٠ 20 |
Look, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
| لِذَلِكَ سَمِعَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَغَضِبَ، وَٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ فِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَسَخَطٌ أَيْضًا صَعِدَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٢١ 21 |
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
| لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِٱللهِ وَلَمْ يَتَّكِلُوا عَلَى خَلَاصِهِ. | ٢٢ 22 |
because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.
| فَأَمَرَ ٱلسَّحَابَ مِنْ فَوْقُ، وَفَتَحَ مَصَارِيعَ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ. | ٢٣ 23 |
Yet he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنًّا لِلْأَكْلِ، وَبُرَّ ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَعْطَاهُمْ. | ٢٤ 24 |
He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.
| أَكَلَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ خُبْزَ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ. أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَادًا لِلشِّبَعِ. | ٢٥ 25 |
Man ate the bread of the mighty ones. He sent them food to the full.
| أَهَاجَ شَرْقِيَّةً فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَسَاقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ جَنُوبِيَّةً. | ٢٦ 26 |
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
| وَأَمْطَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَحْمًا مِثْلَ ٱلتُّرَابِ، وَكَرَمْلِ ٱلْبَحْرِ طُيُورًا ذَوَاتِ أَجْنِحَةٍ. | ٢٧ 27 |
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
| وَأَسْقَطَهَا فِي وَسَطِ مَحَلَّتِهِمْ حَوَالَيْ مَسَاكِنِهِمْ. | ٢٨ 28 |
He let it fall in the midst of his camp, all around his tent.
| فَأَكَلُوا وَشَبِعُوا جِدًّا، وَأَتَاهُمْ بِشَهْوَتِهِمْ. | ٢٩ 29 |
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
| لَمْ يَزُوغُوا عَنْ شَهْوَتِهِمْ. طَعَامُهُمْ بَعْدُ فِي أَفْوَاهِهِمْ، | ٣٠ 30 |
They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
| فَصَعِدَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَضَبُ ٱللهِ، وَقَتَلَ مِنْ أَسْمَنِهِمْ، وَصَرَعَ مُخْتَارِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٣١ 31 |
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
| فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ أَخْطَأُوا بَعْدُ، وَلَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِعَجَائِبِهِ. | ٣٢ 32 |
For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
| فَأَفْنَى أَيَّامَهُمْ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ وَسِنِيهِمْ بِٱلرُّعْبِ. | ٣٣ 33 |
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
| إِذْ قَتَلَهُمْ طَلَبُوهُ، وَرَجَعُوا وَبَكَّرُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ، | ٣٤ 34 |
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
| وَذَكَرُوا أَنَّ ٱللهَ صَخْرَتُهُمْ، وَٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ وَلِيُّهُمْ. | ٣٥ 35 |
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
| فَخَادَعُوهُ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ، وَكَذَبُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. | ٣٦ 36 |
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
| أَمَّا قُلُوبُهُمْ فَلَمْ تُثَبَّتْ مَعَهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ فِي عَهْدِهِ. | ٣٧ 37 |
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
| أَمَّا هُوَ فَرَؤُوفٌ، يَغْفِرُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَلَا يُهْلِكُ. وَكَثِيرًا مَا رَدَّ غَضَبَهُ، وَلَمْ يُشْعِلْ كُلَّ سَخَطِهِ. | ٣٨ 38 |
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
| ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُمْ بَشَرٌ. رِيحٌ تَذْهَبُ وَلَا تَعُودُ. | ٣٩ 39 |
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
| كَمْ عَصَوْهُ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأَحْزَنُوهُ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ! | ٤٠ 40 |
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.
| رَجَعُوا وَجَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَعَنَّوْا قُدُّوسَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٤١ 41 |
They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
| لَمْ يَذْكُرُوا يَدَهُ يَوْمَ فَدَاهُمْ مِنَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ، | ٤٢ 42 |
They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
| حَيْثُ جَعَلَ فِي مِصْرَ آيَاتِهِ، وَعَجَائِبَهُ فِي بِلَادِ صُوعَنَ. | ٤٣ 43 |
how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
| إِذْ حَوَّلَ خُلْجَانَهُمْ إِلَى دَمٍ، وَمَجَارِيَهُمْ لِكَيْ لَا يَشْرَبُوا. | ٤٤ 44 |
he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعُوضًا فَأَكَلَهُمْ، وَضَفَادِعَ فَأَفْسَدَتْهُمْ. | ٤٥ 45 |
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
| أَسْلَمَ لِلْجَرْدَمِ غَلَّتَهُمْ، وَتَعَبَهُمْ لِلْجَرَادِ. | ٤٦ 46 |
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
| أَهْلَكَ بِٱلْبَرَدِ كُرُومَهُمْ، وَجُمَّيْزَهُمْ بِٱلصَّقِيعِ. | ٤٧ 47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلْبَرَدِ بَهَائِمَهُمْ، وَمَوَاشِيَهُمْ لِلْبُرُوقِ. | ٤٨ 48 |
He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
| أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حُمُوَّ غَضَبِهِ، سَخَطًا وَرِجْزًا وَضِيْقًا، جَيْشَ مَلَائِكَةٍ أَشْرَارٍ. | ٤٩ 49 |
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of destroying angels.
| مَهَّدَ سَبِيلًا لِغَضَبِهِ. لَمْ يَمْنَعْ مِنَ ٱلْمَوْتِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ، بَلْ دَفَعَ حَيَاتَهُمْ لِلْوَبَإِ. | ٥٠ 50 |
He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
| وَضَرَبَ كُلَّ بِكْرٍ فِي مِصْرَ. أَوَائِلَ ٱلْقُدْرَةِ فِي خِيَامِ حَامٍ. | ٥١ 51 |
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
| وَسَاقَ مِثْلَ ٱلْغَنَمِ شَعْبَهُ، وَقَادَهُمْ مِثْلَ قَطِيعٍ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. | ٥٢ 52 |
But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
| وَهَدَاهُمْ آمِنِينَ فَلَمْ يَجْزَعُوا. أَمَّا أَعْدَاؤُهُمْ فَغَمَرَهُمُ ٱلْبَحْرُ. | ٥٣ 53 |
He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
| وَأَدْخَلَهُمْ فِي تُخُومِ قُدْسِهِ، هَذَا ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي ٱقْتَنَتْهُ يَمِينُهُ. | ٥٤ 54 |
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
| وَطَرَدَ ٱلْأُمَمَ مِنْ قُدَّامِهِمْ وَقَسَمَهُمْ بِٱلْحَبْلِ مِيرَاثًا، وَأَسْكَنَ فِي خِيَامِهِمْ أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٥٥ 55 |
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| فَجَرَّبُوا وَعَصَوْا ٱللهَ ٱلْعَلِيَّ، وَشَهَادَاتِهِ لَمْ يَحْفَظُوا، | ٥٦ 56 |
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;
| بَلِ ٱرْتَدُّوا وَغَدَرُوا مِثْلَ آبَائِهِمْ. ٱنْحَرَفُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. | ٥٧ 57 |
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
| أَغَاظُوهُ بِمُرْتَفَعَاتِهِمْ، وَأَغَارُوهُ بِتَمَاثِيلِهِمْ. | ٥٨ 58 |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
| سَمِعَ ٱللهُ فَغَضِبَ، وَرَذَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ جِدًّا، | ٥٩ 59 |
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
| وَرَفَضَ مَسْكِنَ شِيلُوِ، ٱلْخَيْمَةَ ٱلَّتِي نَصَبَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ. | ٦٠ 60 |
So that he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men;
| وَسَلَّمَ لِلسَّبْيِ عِزَّهُ، وَجَلَالَهُ لِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ. | ٦١ 61 |
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
| وَدَفَعَ إِلَى ٱلسَّيْفِ شَعْبَهُ، وَغَضِبَ عَلَى مِيرَاثِهِ. | ٦٢ 62 |
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
| مُخْتَارُوهُ أَكَلَتْهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ، وَعَذَارَاهُ لَمْ يُحْمَدْنَ. | ٦٣ 63 |
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
| كَهَنَتُهُ سَقَطُوا بِٱلسَّيْفِ، وَأَرَامِلُهُ لَمْ يَبْكِينَ. | ٦٤ 64 |
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
| فَٱسْتَيْقَظَ ٱلرَّبُّ كَنَائِمٍ، كَجَبَّارٍ مُعَيِّطٍ مِنَ ٱلْخَمْرِ. | ٦٥ 65 |
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
| فَضَرَبَ أَعْدَاءَهُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَهُمْ عَارًا أَبَدِيًّا. | ٦٦ 66 |
He struck his adversaries backward. He made them a permanent shame.
| وَرَفَضَ خَيْمَةَ يُوسُفَ، وَلَمْ يَخْتَرْ سِبْطَ أَفْرَايِمَ. | ٦٧ 67 |
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
| بَلِ ٱخْتَارَ سِبْطَ يَهُوذَا، جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ. | ٦٨ 68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
| وَبَنَى مِثْلَ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ مَقْدِسَهُ، كَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَسَّسَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. | ٦٩ 69 |
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
| وَٱخْتَارَ دَاوُدَ عَبْدَهُ، وَأَخَذَهُ مِنْ حَظَائِرِ ٱلْغَنَمِ. | ٧٠ 70 |
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
| مِنْ خَلْفِ ٱلْمُرْضِعَاتِ أَتَى بِهِ، لِيَرْعَى يَعْقُوبَ شَعْبَهُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلَ مِيرَاثَهُ. | ٧١ 71 |
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
| فَرَعَاهُمْ حَسَبَ كَمَالِ قَلْبِهِ، وَبِمَهَارَةِ يَدَيْهِ هَدَاهُمْ. | ٧٢ 72 |
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
